Commentary: U.S. will eventually love health care overhaul

McClatchy News ^ | April 1, 2010 | By James Werrell [not Wanker in name, but in spirit]

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The scare tactics used to oppose Medicare in the 1960s -- not to mention Social Security in the 1940s -- were much the same as what critics of comprehensive health care reform are saying about the bill signed into law by the president this week. If anything, the current rhetoric is even more overheated: "This is a socialistic plan to deprive you of your freedom, kill your grandmother and bankrupt the nation in the process."

Americans should take comfort from that. The nation came to love both Social Security and Medicare, and I predict they will come to love the new health care reforms, too.

I will go out on a limb and make this prediction: At a Tea Party rally some 20 or 30 years down the road, an enraged citizen at a town hall meeting, probably in South Carolina, will shout the words: "Keep your government hands off my Obamacare!"

[SIDENET]

Stifle your LOLz!

My LOLz have indeed, been stifled.

;-)

[dalereed]

You’re god damn right!!!!

[Clock King]

Yeah, like citizens of the UK love the NHS. /sarc

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I can tell.

I got four exclamation points on that last post from you.

That's pretty serious.

May I recommend Caps lock? Sometimes, nothing less will do.

[Spok]

“Commentary: U.S. will eventually love health care overhaul”

What they meant was eventually we’ll be afraid to criticize it.

[ridesthemiles]

I invite this author to come to my residence and personally convince me of his position.

I am more than unhappy with this bill, and with NObama, Reid, & Pelosi in general.

[Lazamataz]

PMFJI, WTFIGO? WOB IMNSHO. JFYI, INAL IYKWIM.

GR&D

[Thom Pain]

I just LOVE these Friday Silliness threads!

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GMTA?

[GloriaJane]

[dalereed]

The language of this country is English!!!!

[ArrogantBustard]

The nation came to love both Social Security and Medicare,

Speak for yourself, jackass. Socialist inSecurity is a colossal ripoff, and I'm likely to get the shaft from it.

[Lazamataz]

Я говорил на английском языке, Вы глупый гусь! Вы бушуете и подскакиваете вокруг так приятно, и это забавно. Благодарите Вас!

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The language of this country is English!!!!

TRU DAT!

[muglywump]

Easy for you to say. :)

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[dfwgator]

Thank God for Google Translate, you silly goose!

[Tallguy]

All this proves is that the legislative ‘winners’ get to write history.

[wac3rd]

McCommunist News again...?

These people are running ragged pushing Obie’s agenda...

[Pining_4_TX]

“All right, all right. Stop this. It’s gotten silly!” ~ The colonel from Monty Python